2009

Interview: Fusion in a cold climate - For most researchers, any mention of cold fusion brings back memories of a shameful period in modern science. Now, 20 years after Martin Fleischmann instigated this field, he tells Jon Cartwright that he could not have done anything differently, and that if we cannot get fusion of some sort to work on a large scale soon, we're doomed. (New Scientist July 15, 2009)

2008 and Earlier

Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Sourcebook - This book is a summary of selected experimental and theoretical research performed over the last 19 years that gives profound and unambiguous evidence for low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), historically known as cold fusion. (New Energy Times Aug. 18, 2008)

Arata-Zhang Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Demonstration - Against a monumental backdrop of bad publicity for cold fusion since 1989, researchers in Japan on May 22 demonstrated the production of excess heat and helium-4, the results of an historic low-energy nuclear reaction experiment. (New Energy Times May 22, 2008)

Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion - "Arata and Zhang demonstrated very successfully the generation of continuous excess energy [heat] from ZrO2-nano-Pd sample powders under D2 gas charging and generation of helium-4," Takahashi told New Energy Times. "The demonstrated live data looked just like data they reported in their published papers [J. High Temp. Soc. Jpn, Feb. and March issues, 2008]. This demonstration showed that the method is highly reproducible." (PhysOrg May 27. 2008)

Beyond the horizon of humdrum - The Holy Grail of Energy - Can cold fusion, "the greatest dream of science," deliver the energy of the sun at room temperature? (Times of India Jan. 1, 2005)

Practical Fusion, or Just a Bubble? - Impulse Devices is exploring sound-driven fusion, called sonofusion or bubble fusion, to expand and collapse tiny bubbles, generating ultrahot temperatures. Other researchers already have working desktop fusion devices, but building a fusion reactor that generates more energy than it consumes is far more challenging. (New York Times Feb. 27, 2007)

Nuclear reactions may produce phones' power - Lattice Energy LLC is trying to create an alternative to batteries, for powering cell phones and other small gadgets up to 500 hours using low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR). They believe electrons combining with protons to form neutrons is the energy source, rather than atoms of deuterium fusing to form helium in cold fusion. (Chicago Tribune Apr. 16, 2007)

Sonofusion research examination committee completes review - Cryptic press release speaks both of technological potential of ambient temperature fusion via sound waves, as well as importance of integrity in reporting says matter will be handled as a confidential internal affair. (PESN June 20, 2006)